Cavium (Qlogic) BCM57840 4-port SFP+ 10 Gb Ethernet Adapter PCIe3.0 x8 LP (FC EKA1)

Overview

The Cavium (Qlogic) BCM57840 4-port SFP+ 10 Gb Ethernet Adapter PCIe3.0 x8 LP is a PCI Express (PCIe) generation 3 (Gen3) x8 adapter. The adapter can be used in either a x8 or x16 PCIe slot in the system. The adapter offers a broad selection of networking features including TCP offload, support for PXE boot and virtualized environments (VMDq and PC-SIG SRIOV), and Energy Efficient Ethernet (IEEE 802.3az).

Figure 1. Cavium (Qlogic) BCM57840 4-port SFP+ 10 Gb Ethernet Adapter PCIe3.0 x8 LP

Specifications

Item

Description

Adapter FRU number

01EM699 (AOC-STG-B4S) (Designed to comply with RoHS requirement)

I/O bus architecture

PCIe3 x8

Slot requirement

For details about slot priorities and placement rules, see PCIe adapter placement rules and slot priorities and select the system you are working on.

Supported Systems

POWER8® processor-based systems

• 8001-12C and 8001-22C

Voltage

12 V

Form factor

Short, low-profile

Maximum number

For details about the maximum number of adapters that are supported, see PCIe adapter placement rules and slot priorities and select the system you are working on.

Attributes provided

External PHY support

TCP Offload Engine (TOE)

IPv6 acceleration

SR-IOV with up to 64 Virtual Functions (VFs) for Guest Operating Systems (GOS) per port

Cables

LC-LC fiber-optic cables (with required optional transceivers)

Operating system or partition requirements

If you are installing a new feature, ensure that you have the software that is required to support the new feature and that you determine whether any prerequisites must be met for this feature and attaching devices. To check for the prerequisites, see IBM® Prerequisite website.